Superphosphate And Blackberry Quotes & Sayings

I don't see much of a future for this planet. I think it's a cursed planet. The boundaries we've drawn between nations and the profit motive - those two factors have, in my opinion, brought us to the point where almost nothing can stop the utter destruction of the environment and all our earthly life-support systems. — George Carlin

My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital. — Chris Bohjalian

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology. — H.L. Mencken

I'd like to continue doing movies, clubs, concert halls and television. I like something about each one. — Tommy Davidson

If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up and light-heartedly, courageously, good temperedly get ready for the next encounter. This is the only way to take life - this is also 'playing' the game! — Emily Post

A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world! ... — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses. — Cristina Kirchner

The thirteenth-century philosopher Roger Bacon claimed that "nobody can obtain to proficiency in the science of mathematics by the method hitherto known unless he devotes to its study thirty or forty years." Today, the entire body of mathematics known to Bacon is now acquired by your average high school junior. — Joshua Foer

I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean. — Gemma Ward

As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce ... — Jacqueline Novogratz

Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and preach that the highest virtue man can practice is to hold his own life as of no value. Do they tell you that the purpose of morality is to curb man's instinct of self-preservation? It is for the purpose of self-preservation that man needs a code of morality. The only man who desires to be moral is the man who desires to live. — Ayn Rand

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love. — Yann Martel